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Volex - To bust a billion within five years

July 2022

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

You won’t need me to tell you this is a bear market. Even stocks reporting great results have continued to stagnate. Just take the example of Volex (VLX; 247.5p), which reported full year results that were slightly ahead of expectations. Based on a higher tax rate, eps estimates of 27 cents (22.1p) for the current year leaves the prospective PE ratio at a cheap looking 11, less than half of what it was last September.I asked my colleague in the office which was worse, the Covid-inspired recession or now, when we have the more usual kind - an inflation and interest rates-driven recession. His comment was that Covid was worse because almost overnight companies were shuttered and had no sales. We got through that but now again we are ...

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Volex (November 2023)

Volex - Murat Ticaret deal completes earlier than anticipated (September 2023)

Volex - Transformational deal produces 14% eps upgrade (July 2023)

Volex - Trading ahead of expectations (May 2023)

Volex - Outperforming the market (December 2022)

Volex - Strong Q1 trading (September 2022)

Volex - EV demand helps it beat expectations (May 2022)

Volex - Enters EV infrastructure segment (December 2021)

Volex - Two directors buy shares (November 2021)

Volex - Earnings accretive US defence acquisition (September 2021)

Volex - Forecast up 5% as Medical and EV jump (August 2021)

Volex - Data centres and EV sales +38% and +193%, respectively (July 2021)

Volex - Significant beat on FY21 estimates (May 2021)

Volex (March 2021)

Volex - Three deals being worked on (January 2021)

Volex - Canaccord sets 398p price target (December 2020)

Volex - "Materially ahead of expectations"- results due on 12 November (November 2020)

Volex (August 2020)

Volex (May 2020)

Volex - High growth and exciting (December 2019)

Volex - Five quarters of improvement (June 2010)

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